The extraction of “Level 2” detail — ridge terminations, ridge bifurcations, bridges etc. — from digitised images of fingerprints requires an accurate segmentation of the...
—Most fingerprint-based biometric systems store the minutiae template of a user in the database. It has been traditionally assumed that the minutiae template of a user does not r...
Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is still an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality print...
Sharat Chikkerur, Alexander N. Cartwright, Venu Go...
A hybrid fingerprint identification system is presented in this paper. The system consists of several steps: fingerprint enhancement, minutiae extraction, texture feature extracti...
Oriented patterns, e.g. fingerprints, consist of smoothly
varying flow-like patterns, together with important singular
points (i.e. cores and deltas) where the orientation change...
Qijun Zhao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University),...